title:
Black Beauty
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studio:
Paramount Home Entertainment
MPAA rating:
G
starring:
Mark Lester, Walter Slezak
theaterical release year:
1971
DVD release year:
2004
film rating:
Two-and-a-Half Stars
sound/picture rating:
Three Stars
reviewed by:
Abbie Bernstein
The 1971 film version of “Black Beauty” – there have been other
versions before and since, including an award-winning TV British TV
series in the ‘70s and Caroline Thompson’s excellent 1994 feature – is
a very curious adaptation of Anna Sewell’s groundbreaking book. First
published in the late 1800s, Sewell’s story about the title horse, told
from the horse’s point of view, was notable for being one of the first
pieces of literature to seriously plead for people to pay attention to
the welfare of domestic animals. While this British film (shot in
Ireland and Spain) certainly doesn’t encourage animal cruelty, it
misses the point of Sewell’s book. The problem is not so much that it
changes around Sewell’s episodic narrative to a great degree, but
rather that it ...

title:
Rounders (Collector's Edition)
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studio:
Miramax
MPAA rating:
R
starring:
Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Turturo, John Malkovich, Gretchen Mol, Martin Landau
film release year:
1998
DVD release year:
2004
film rating:
Three-and-a-Half Stars
sound/picture rating:
Three-and-a-Half Stars
reviewed by:
Bryan Dailey
”Rounders” was just a few years ahead of its time. You need only
channel surf for about five minutes at any given time of the day to run
across poker or a card game of some kind being shown on TV. From ESPN
to The Travel Channel to Game Show Network, poker – Texas Hold 'Em in
particular – has seen an unbelievable boom in popularity on television
in the past year. Some say this new-found popularity for poker on TV
was thanks to the movie “Rounders.”

title:
Freaks
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studio:
Warner Home Video
MPAA rating:
NR
starring:
Wallace
Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Harry Earles, Daisy Earles, Roscoe
Ates, Daisy & Violet Hilton, Rose Dione, Schlitze, Josephine
Joseph, Johnny Eck, Angelo Rossitto
director:
Tod Browning
film release year:
1932
DVD release year:
2004
film rating:
Three Stars
sound/picture rating:
Three-and-a-Half Stars
reviewed by:
Bill Warren
In 1931, the release of both “Dracula” and “Frankenstein” created a new
genre: the horror movie. Both were very popular, and other studios
scrambled to come up with horror movies of their own. MGM, considered
(largely by itself) to be the Cadillac of the studios, held back. Their
problem was that they had a star who’d made successful movies for them
that were grotesque enough to teeter on the edge of horror. This was
Lon Chaney (Sr.), the Man of a Thousand Faces, who died unexpectedly in
1930.

title:
Guilty By Suspicion
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studio:
Warner Home Video
starring:
Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, George Wendt, Patricia Wettig
release year:
1991
film rating:
Three stars
reviewed by:
Abbie Bernstein
In one of those twists of fate few could have predicted, 'Guilty By
Suspicion' seems a lot more relevant to current events now than it did
when it was released back in 1991. The sight of daily government
hearings full of vitriol and circular logic may indeed be unbearably
familiar to anybody who's turned on the news lately.